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Another Sign: In major shift, new guidelines scale back breast cancer screenings

Posted by Mr.Copper @ 12:13 on October 21, 2015  

My hobby is telling the future. Nothing is a coincidence.
Part:
“The changes, which include recommending that the testing be started later and conducted less frequently, are a recognition of the growing concern that the benefits of mammograms may have been oversold as well as the anxiety and burden to the health care system caused by over diagnosis and false positives from the tests.

“The more conservative approach outlined by the ACS calls for women starting yearly screening at age 45 instead of 40 and then transitioning to screening every two years starting at age 55 — which the panel used as a surrogate for menopause. The ACS also recommended that doctors stop screening women with a life expectancy of less than 10 years based on the idea that they will likely die with the cancer but not from it.”

“The ACS’s updates come at a time when cancer experts are rethinking the very definition of cancer. Thanks to advances in genetic testing, blood-based markers and digital imaging, cancer is being diagnosed earlier than ever and there’s a radical new recognition that there is a subset tumors that may never grow enough to be harmful to a patient. The most obvious example is in prostate cancers but researchers have found similar cases in cancers of other regions.”

story:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/10/20/new-breast-cancer-screening-guidelines-take-more-conservative-approach-recognizing-need-to-balance-benefits-and-harms/

Comment:
There will be many lay offs in the future related to “artificial jobs” in the USA. As China et all contract, lose manufacturing production jobs, “artificial jobs” will probably be created over there.

Everything is in reverse.

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